Need some feedback on new directory prior to launch

Discussion in 'Directories' started by The Club Crawler, Apr 6, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi all,
    I have scrapped my article site in favor of a dir. The domain has a pr 1 or 2 depending on which checker you use and is predicted to jump to a pr 4 next update (not that, that means anything).
    At the moment I have no listings, just the general layout and have disabled the submit form until it is all ready to go.

    Just looking for some feed back on the design, or any glitches i may have overlooked.

    The URL is www.inform4free.com

    Thanks in advance!
     
    The Club Crawler, Apr 6, 2008 IP
  2. vitalous

    vitalous Guest

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    #2
    Great name and topic. Need some content to try navigation.
    Why all-caps?
     
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  3. pipes

    pipes Prominent Member

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    #3
    Yeah caps is kinda shouting at people, makes it slightly tougher to read too.
     
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  4. The Club Crawler

    The Club Crawler Peon

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    #4
    Ok turns out it was the font that displayed all in caps! I have switched to a different font for the text at the bottom, but kept the Caps font for the headings and titles. uploading the site now. Other than that what do you think of the design?
     
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  5. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #5
    Display the categories on the home page.
     
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  6. MeetHere

    MeetHere Prominent Member

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    #6
    correct.

    Nice use of images.

    A health related domain would be better ;)
     
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  7. pipes

    pipes Prominent Member

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    #7
    You may want to change it in your Meta Title too, just a suggestion though, you may prefer it to display that way.

    Design wise nice and clean, its focused and brought together.
     
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  8. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    #8
    I'd have to agree with MeetHere. Something brandable with some keywords would have been nice.
     
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  9. The Club Crawler

    The Club Crawler Peon

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    yeah The domain was set up 7 months ago, under the idea of crossing inform(in shape) and information. we set it up as an article and fitness info resource site, but writing good length articles on a broad range of subjects was getting to be way too much work. (we didnt want to just go and use free articles, but was looking like we may have too) that is when I decided to turn it into a directory, already has a bunch of related links and is just starting to climb in the serps. I figure I can use a bunch of the articles we wrote in blog posts anyways.

    I have added the categories to the main page also, see what you think. thank you all again!
     
    The Club Crawler, Apr 6, 2008 IP
  10. SubmitShop

    SubmitShop Banned

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    #10
    Try to add more than 500 authority sites listing to make your directory success
     
    SubmitShop, Apr 6, 2008 IP
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    #11
    As previously suggested add a lot of quality content prior to going public with it. You don’t want to be another empty directory with no future. :D
     
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  12. The Club Crawler

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    #12
    yeah, i have a bunch ready to go, just wanted some feed back to tweak it a bit, should have this firing in about 2 weeks. thank you all for feedback
     
    The Club Crawler, Apr 6, 2008 IP